Includes bibliographical references (p. [468]-476) and index.
Contents:
Speech to the troops at Tilbury -- From Her protection for women / Jane Anger -- From A discourse of life and death / Mary Sidney Herbert -- Speech at the dissolving of parliament / Elizabeth I -- The golden speech / Elizabeth I -- 'A dialogue between two shepherds, Thenot and Piers, in praise of Astraea / Mary Sidney Herbert -- Salve deus rex Judaeorum / Aemilia Lanyer -- The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry / Elizabeth Cary -- From A muzzle for Melastomus / Rachel Speght -- Pamphilia to Amphilanthus / Mary Roth -- From A chain of pearl / Diana Primrose -- A true copy of the petition of gentlewomen, and tradesmen's wives / Anne Stagg, et al. -- A vision: wherein is manifested the disease and cure of the kingdom / Elizabeth Poole -- Strange and wonderful news from Whitehall / Anna Trapnel -- From The case of Madam Mary Carleton / Mary Carleton -- From Poems / Katherine Philips -- The convent of pleasure / Margaret Cavendish -- From An essay to revive the ancient education of gentlewomen / Bathsua Makin -- From Several poems / Anne Bradstreet -- Oroonoko, or The royal slave / Aphra Behn -- The widow ranter, or The history of bacon in Virginia / Aphra Behn.
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